I'm trying to figure out if I've already said this. Those green bags do help. I've actually put a half of an apple or half of a banana in one and had them stay white for a day (not together! Bananas and apples will make each other ripen faster! Go straight to brown!). But some times I just want a half and the green bags do slow down the process (also lettuce and cabbage will last longer before "rusting"). This is a real help if you're a one or two person household.

I seldom buy banana's because they seem to have just a one day time span where I will eat them. They need to be at that precise day that they are fit for eating...if they have gone to the next day, and have any of those little spots on them that my mother lovingly called "sugar spots"........they are spoiled in my opinion. Ick.

My mother called bananas with brown spots "candied". Yuck. My sister liked them. My DH thinks I eat unripe 'nanners. We get about three days of 'nanner eating out of a bunch. The rest get left out until really ripe and then frozen for 'nanner bread.

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This is one reason I drink smoothies. I rarely have a problem with over ripe fruit. They can go in the blender long after they become over ripe. Even better because they get very sweet. I have eaten or drank 3 or 4 bananas at a time. Usually about 10 a week around here

This is one reason I drink smoothies. I rarely have a problem with over ripe fruit. They can go in the blender long after they become over ripe. Even better because they get very sweet. I have eaten or drank 3 or 4 bananas at a time. Usually about 10 a week around here

Love those smoothies myself. A good place for the overripe fruit!

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Just a note of interrest folks. When you freeze bananas, the skin will turn black and the flesh inside is perfectly fit to eat.

Not if you let them get very ripe first. They will be perfect for banana bread, but not for eating. Liquid separates from the flesh and they are kinda gross. For banana bread, reduce that liquid and measure the bananas by volume. Intense banana flavour.

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